Pro AI communities invite their own mediocrity

Basically, if someone produces some AI video, that's fine. I saw someone come out with an AI music video and watched it. The editing was jarring for sure. Some dude posted a multi-paragraph long critique of it, not hateful, that I thought was insightful. Some hours later the comment had been deleted and a Reddit mod banned them from the sub with a pretty cringe AI gif on top of it.

Pro AI people, you do realize that critique is engaging with your craft? And that you're banning people in your communities who are about making your outputs better / evolving your thinking?

It's like watching a person say "Guys actually, witches may not even be real and the way we test for them always results in death" and then get thrown into a pond with rocks tied to their ankles for it. They're right, they're just early and the community too immature and defensive. Which is a bit funny since Pro AI communities constantly talk about witch hunting when they're doing it with their own members that are inviting their craft to be better.

This is why the people in traditional art have been saying "Look, there are tiers of respect to art, craft does matter" -- and pro AI people have been pushing back on the craft part, which results in this exact situation. You can't avoid craft values forever.